Your Mark On The World

The population of Africa could almost double to 2.3 billion people by 2050 with a huge portion of that population being prime working age. The UN Resident Coordinator to Kenya, Siddharth Chatterjee, sees this as an opportunity Africa can harness to accelerate economic growth and lift hundreds of millions of people now living in extreme poverty out of it. Sid, a passionate advocate for both women and the people of Africa, sees the opportunity to employ this population in productive work as a key to a prosperous future. Interview with Siddharth Chatterjee, the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya. of United Nations Kenya. The following is the pre-interview with Siddharth Chatterjee. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above. We’ll be discussing Promise or Peril-Africas’s 830 million youth by 2050 with Siddharth Chatterjee. How are you personally affected by Africas’s 830 million youth by 2050? Africa’s population is expected to reach around 2.3 billion by 2050. The accompanying increase in it